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Ted Morgan


Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

Will Cuppy


Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Thomas a Kempis


Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.

Homer, The Iliad


A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus's-flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition.

Mickey Rooney


You always pass failure on the way to success.

Kevin R. Hutson


Time is like a river. It flows one direction, But with a little force you can go back. But like a river, Everything you do has a ripple.

Jonathan Swift


Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly.

Demosthenes, Third Olynthiac


Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden


Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it but as I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is.

Edgar Watson Howe


I express many absurd opinions, but I am not the first man to do it American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

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International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:39:54 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.23 January22 Januarydifference New York Dow Jones 11,779.1911,971.19(- 192.00) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,226.93 2,292.27(-65.34) TokyoNikkei12,829.0612,573.05(+ 256...

4 Quotes on Fields

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:32:00 +0000
Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them, and they are full of toads. - Logan Pearsall Smith
On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory. - General Douglas MacArthur
We shall defend our ...]

Quotes, Boxscore After Tennessee's Loss To Kentucky (The Chattanoogan)

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:40:10 GMT
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Quotes, boxscore after Tennessee's 72-66 loss Tuesday night to Kentucky. Opening statement… “Every team tries to find an identity. Sometime this year we’re going to play with passion and have poise. I thought tonight Kentucky was the more passionate team.

Digital Camera Essentials

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:13:00 GMT
NetGuide Web - You can buy and sell shares or currency online, monitor your portfolio and get instant quotes. Fin Data ( www.findata.co.nz ), aimed at personal investors, offers free downloadable tools for things like ...

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Today's Famous Quotes

Famous Quotes:

George Bernard Shaw


Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

Frederick Buechner


The grace of God means something like Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you. There's only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too.

Blessing Irish


At a certain age some people's minds close up they live on their intellectual fat.

Richard M. Devos


If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one

E. B. White


I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they happen to strike me.

Dennis Roch


If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.

Horace


Life is largely a matter of expectation.

William Shakespeare


This above all TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE. And it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

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Key quotes on economy, Fed rate cut

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:58:00 GMT
Reuters - "Our policy starts with the policy that open investment is a critical driver of the U.S. economy." "The questions should be very much around whether that (sovereign wealth fund) investment in future ...

4 Lift Quotes

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:11:00 +0000
Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help lift him up. - Ecclesiastes 4910 Bible
I hold before you my hand with each ...]

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Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting


The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

Kyle Schmidt


I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.

Elvin Stackman


Science cannot stop while ethics catches up -- and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.

Oliver Hereford


Diplomacy: lying in state.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich


Well behaved women seldom make history.

Barbara Bush


Believe in something larger than yourself.

Robert Lynd


The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

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Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $17.081 ounce (Canadian Business)

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:47:11 GMT
The Canadian Press January 23, 2008 - 12:31 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $17.081 oz., $549.15 kg.; Tuesday $17.184 oz., $552.47 kg.

Rabbi Boteach, you're wrong about Chabad

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:10:00 GMT
Jerusalem Post - Without engaging in theological niceties, I present quotations from statements by religious mentors in respected Lubavitch institutions in both Israel and the United States.

Todays Quotes

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:03:00 +0000
Memories, important yesterdays, were once todays. Treasure and notice today. - Gloria Gaither
Do not be so quick to judge or label, for one day the objects of ridicule may become what they are ever so used to being seen as. And when this happens it is too late, another soul has fallen to the cruel ...]

Quotes from Sir Edmund's funeral

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:11:00 GMT
New Zealand Herald - "Sir Ed opened our eyes to a world of possibilities." "I still remember when I was young, first hearing the story of how my father and Sir Ed had clim Everest...I was enthralled." "When sherpas heard ...

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Samuel Hazo


Expect everything, and anything seems nothing. Expect nothing, and anything seems everything.

Lewis Thomas


We pass the word around we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry we meditate over the literature we play the music we change our minds we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

Claude Debussy


If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

Joseph Addison


True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self.




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Charles Caleb Colton


He that knows himself, knows others and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Cicero


History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.

Stephen Butler Leacock


Most people tire of a lecture in 10 minutes clever people can do it in 5. Sensible people never go to lectures at all.

Benjamin Franklin


A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.

Albert Schweitzer


Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Havelock Ellis


Jealousy: that Dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

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Hände hoch!

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:17:00 GMT
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Inflation wird handelbar

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:46:00 GMT
Boerse Online - In dieser Zeit dürften die Hauptumsätze getätigt werden. Ansonsten erfolgt ein kontinuierlicher Handel, bei dem Marketmaker auf Preisanfragen handelbare Quotes stellen.

4 Lift Quotes

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:11:00 +0000
Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help lift him up. - Ecclesiastes 4910 Bible
I hold before you my hand with each ...]

Todays Quotes

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:03:00 +0000
Memories, important yesterdays, were once todays. Treasure and notice today. - Gloria Gaither
Do not be so quick to judge or label, for one day the objects of ridicule may become what they are ever so used to being seen as. And when this happens it is too late, another soul has fallen to the cruel ...]

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Amos Bronson Alcott, Table Talk


That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.

Persian Proverb


The blind man is laughing at the bald head.

B. J. Gupta


Any activity that adversely affects society is immoral.

Taylor Benson


It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce


Callous, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.

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Bush, House reach deal on economic stimulus package (USA Today)

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:54:00 GMT
Original posting at 9:45 a.m. ET: The Associated Press is describing the broad outlines of a compromise between the White House and congressional on plans to stimulate the nation's economy. The wire service quotes an anonymous source who says just...

Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $17.081 ounce (Canadian Business)

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:47:36 GMT
The Canadian Press January 23, 2008 - 12:31 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $17.081 oz., $549.15 kg.; Tuesday $17.184 oz., $552.47 kg.

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William Proxmire


Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

Henri Matisse


Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

Scottish Proverb


A cold needs the cook as much as the doctor.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Richard M. Nixon


The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

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Stock & fund quotes

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:35:00 GMT
ninemsn - Clough Ltd expects to book a $13 million profit from the sale of its subsidiary Clough Engineering & Maintenance Ltd (CEM) to Bilfinger Berger Services. Clough said CEM was a better strategic fit with ...

Defamation suit unlikely to succeed

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:08:00 GMT
Yale Daily News - Thursday night.... For Shapiro, candidates’ verbal gaffes are gems Published in 2006, the “Yale Book of Quotations” is a reference book that challenges the established quotation collection that is ...

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